Scott Perkins
Justin Scott Perkins (born June 25, 1980) is an international prize-winning composer of vocal music, an award-winning scholar, and a professor at California State University, Sacramento.
Until 2020, Perkins wrote a balance of sacred and secular music. Notable works include A Word Out of The Sea (2003, winner of a BMI Student Composer Award), The Stolen Child (2006), Charon (2012; libretto by Nat Cassidy; commissioned by the Kennedy Center and Washington National Opera), and A New England Requiem (2016).
Since 2020, Perkins's music has been mostly extended, secular, choral works that support and illuminate the words of contemporary authors on themes of social justice, environmentalism, and mental health. His style can be characterized by its lyricism, modal influences, tonal centricity, and metric flexibility. Benjamin Britten, Thomas Tallis, Sigur Rós, Arvo Pärt, and Samuel Barber have influenced the techniques and sound of some of his music. Notable works include Alive Poems (2020) and A Map to the Next World (2023).
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